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Kinetic City
Kinetic City is a fun, Web-based after-school science club for kids ages 8 through
11. It combines exciting online animations and activities with boxes of hands-on
science experiments.
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"Ask a Biologist" Website
Arizona State University's "Ask a Biologist" is an interactive and educational website for students in grades pre-K to 12, and their teachers and parents. Students can "ask a biologist" a question in biology and also access the audio and visual media and educational activities that range from identifying birds to trying their own science experiments.
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Brains and Beakers
In "Brains and Beakers," scientists share mind-blowing inventions and discoveries and the methodologies behind them with students from Youth Radio's Peabody Award-winning media education program.
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Citizen Science Laboratory at Hacienda La Esperanza Reserve
Discover the plants, animals and ecology at the Hacienda La Esperanza Reserve in Manatí, Puerto Rico, through various hands-on Citizen Science projects led by experts in the field.
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"Earth & Sky" Launches Spanish Version
One of the longest-running science radio shows, "Earth & Sky," has launched a Spanish-language version. With funding from the National Science Foundation, "Cielo y Tierra" features the latest science news and answer listeners' science questions in Spanish.
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Fusion Science Theater
The Oct. 2010 cover story for the Journal of Chemical Education describes the surprising outcome of "The Amazing Chemical Circus," a novel form of science outreach developed by Fusion Science Theater.
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Ganga
Join journalist Julian Crandall Hollick on a journey through the Ganga River to explore how this life-sustaining river is in danger of dying.
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Girls' Energy Conservation Corps
The Girls' Energy Conservation Corps (GECCo) is a Girl Scout program that interweaves science learning, leadership and stewardship with innovative use of new media to spread the word about energy conservation and climate change.
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Hands-On Optics -– Making an Impact with Light
"Hands-On Optics" (HOO) is a unique informal science program that pairs optics professionals with science teachers to introduce underserved middle school students to the exciting world of optics.
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Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists
What's life like for researchers working in Antarctica and the Arctic? What questions are they asking and what answers are they finding? Follow along on their adventures with "Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists."
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Merlin's Bird Color Challenge
Sharpen your powers of observation--and contribute information to help build Merlin, a bird-identification tool that uses artificial intelligence.
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Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) involves citizens in collecting data that will help to explain the distribution and abundance patterns of monarch butterflies in North America.
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One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure
"One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure" brings the wonder of astronomy to young children through a collaboration between Sesame Workshop (the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street), the Beijing Planetarium, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J.
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Pulse of the Planet
This Web site links visitors to radio broadcasts, illustrated features, science diaries, and more. Provides daily two-minute sound portraits of planet earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
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RACE--Are We So Different?
RACE--Are We So Different? is a comprehensive, engaging, educational Web site that explores issues of race through the lenses of history, science and lived experience.
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"StarTalk" Radio Show
"StarTalk," hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, is the first and only popular commercial call-in radio program that uses humor to make science accessible to the general public.
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Teen Café Scientifique
Café Scientifique, a program for teens to gather, explore, discuss, and debate the latest ideas in science and technology, and converse with experts in the field. Includes follow-up events explore aspects of the Café topic in greater depth.
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The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST)
The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) is a citizen science project of over 700 community members who search their beach every month for what the tide brings in.
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The Lost Ladybug Project
The "Lost Ladybug Project" invites citizens to send photographs of ladybugs to help explain the decline of once common native ladybug species and document the spread of nonnative ladybug species across North America.
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The Molecularium
Climb aboard the Molecularium for an animated, virtual tour of solids, liquids
and gases—from the inside.
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Trail of Time
The Trail of Time is a fully accessible, interpretive walking time-line trail that utilizes the unique vistas and rocks at the Grand Canyon to help the 5 million annual visitors ponder, explore and understand the magnitude of geologic time and the stories encoded in the rocks and landscapes.
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